Kesari Method II

Have tried making often the regular kesari ... once one of my friend told me to do slight variation to that ...instead of adding kesari colour add grated carrot and it will give u good colour ....wanted to try that ...and there came Srivalli's event : Colouring your kids delight .

My son loved this a lot and he enjoyed it well... I am sure kids will love it and this method I feel it is quite healthy too...sending this to srivalli's event.

Ingredients Needed :

• Rawa - 1 cup
• Carrot - 2
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Milk - 2 cups
• Ghee - 2 tsp.
• Cashew nuts or Badam - 5
• Raisins - 10
• Elachi powder - 1/ 2 tsp.

Method: 

Peel the skin of carrots and grate it and keep it ready. In a kadai add 1/4 tsp. ghee and fry the rawa, and set aside. In the same kadai, add 1/2 tsp. ghee and fry cashew nuts or badam and raisins separately and keep it aside.Add ghee and add the grated carrots and fry for few mins then add roasted rawa + milk + sugar and allow it to cook well ...keep stirring it often ..and make sure no lumps are formed ...once the rawa is cooked u can switch off the gas add elachi powder, fried cashew nuts and raisins and mix well .

No need to cook the carrots well ...the crunchiness of the carrots also tastes good.

Onion - Mini Samosa

Ingredients needed :

• Maida flour - 1 cup
• Wheat (chapathi ) flour - 1 cup
• Onion - 1
• Poha - 1 handful
• Salt
• Chilli powder
• Turmeric powder
• Garam masala powder
• lemon juice - little
• Oil

Method : 

In a bowl mix wheat flour + maida + salt and mix well and add water, little by little and knead the dough well and set aside for 10- 15 mins. in meantime ...chop onions finely and add a handful of poha + chilli powder + turmeric powder + garam masala powder + lemon juice and mix it well and keep it aside.
after 15 mins of resting time , take little dough and roll it like chapathi ...
heat the tawa and fry this chapahti's for few seconds on both the sides and
cut the chapathi like samosa sheets and keep it ready ...in a small cup take little maida and mix it with water and make it like a paste ...now fold the samosa sheets in triangle shapes and fill it with the onion fillings and seal the ends with the maida paste ...in a kadai add oil for deep frying , once the oil gets medium hot fry these samosas till it is done ....Hot hot mini - onion samosas are ready ...

Saw this recipe also in Vahchef's video ...

Note :

adding poha absorbs all the water from the onions in the original recipe , it says that we need to deep fry it twice ...so that onions also get cooked well ....I did not do so ...my onions were little raw only ....but the taste was so good ...u can try both the ways ....

Plantain Kofta curry

Ingredients needed :

• Raw Plantain - 1
• Carrot - 1
• Shredded Cabbage - 1 cup
• Onion - 1
• Spring onions - little
• Chilli powder - 1/4 tsp.
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp.
• Garam masala - 1/4 tsp.
• Jeera powder -1/4 tsp.
• Salt - little
• Oil - little
• Corriander leaves - little

Method :

Peel the skin of carrot and grate it well ...shredd the cabbage also finely ...chop the onions finely and keep it ready ....in a vessel add water and boil the plantain well ...and allow it to cool well and peel the skin and grate it well ... side by side.

 
In a kadai add 2 tsp. of oil and fry the 1 /2 onions well ...u can also add the white part of spring onions too and then add the grated carrot + shredded cabbage + grated plantain + salt + turmeric powder + garam masala powder + chilli powder + jeera powder and fry them well ....
 

once done ...take small amount of curry and make it into a round shape ...
and in a paniyaram pan fry these koftas by adding little oil ...or you can also bake these ...now in the kadai add little oil and fry the onions add chopped green part of spring onions + corriander leaves + little soya sauce + lime juice or pinch of salt and add these plantain - veg. koftas and mix it gently ...serve hot as a starter or as a sidedish ...

Saw this recipe here .